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WBRL-CD is a low-powered digital television station in Baton Rouge, Louisiana affiliated with The CW network. It is a sister station to WGMB, Baton Rouge's Fox affiliate. It is available to viewers in the south central Louisiana area on channel 21 on broadcast. The station is seen via satellite through DirecTV, Dish Network and AT&T U-verse and on cable Cox Communications. Its studios are co-located with WVLA-TV, WGMB and KZUP-CD at Perkins Rowe Town Center in Baton Rouge, and its transmitter is in Addis, Louisiana. ==History== Communications Corporation of America brought WB programming to Baton Rouge cable subscribers in February 1, 1999 as WBBR, a cable-only station on Cox Communications channel 10 (WBBR's call was used in a fictitious mannter).〔A new venture - Local WB affiliate debuts on cable, Baton Rouge Advocate, January 31, 1999〕 Previously, WB programming was available on WTVK-11, a low-power station owned by Gulf Atlantic Communications also affiliated with America One. While the station was carried by several small cable systems in the Greater Baton Rouge Area, including cable providers in LSU, Clinton, Jackson, and Watson, TCI, then Baton Rouge's cable provider, did not carry the station, and it only had a broadcasting range of six miles.〔A David facing TV Goliaths * * * WTVK thinking big despite low-power pole, Baton Rouge Advocate, January 14, 1996〕 TCI, however, did carry WGN irregularly between 1995-1999, making WB programming available to subscribers. Eventually, WTVK signed-off, and channel 11 is now occupied by KPBN-LP, an America One affiliate. The station now known as WBRL signed on the air March 30, 1989 as Channel 65 (K65EF). It was founded by Woody Jenkins of Great Oaks Broadcasting Corporation and initially served as a translator for independent station WBTR, as that station initially had trouble getting picked up on local cable systems in the Greater Baton Rouge Area. In 1992, it became WTNC-TV, Channel 21 and served as Baton Rouge's first all-news station affiliated with the All News Channel. On November 13, 2002, WTNC-TV was purchased by ComCorp with the objective of bringing WBBR/WB programming over-the air. The call sign was changed to WBRL and was initially supposed to be on channel 19 before Communications Corporation decided to put it on channel 21 (sister station KZUP-CD was on channel 19, but is now on channel 20; some station ids from 2002 erroneously branded the station as WB 19 instead of WB 21).〔2 cable stations go over-the-air, Baton Rouge Advocate, December 15, 2002〕〔http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl3FYzJRw_Q〕 WBRL was previously used as the call letters to the FM counterpart to WJBO-AM from 1941-1958--this station is now WYNK-FM and is unrelated to WBRL-CD. On April 24, 2013, ComCorp announced the sale of its entire group, including WGMB and WBRL-CD, to the Nexstar Broadcasting Group.〔https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101552312&qnum=5040©num=1&exhcnum=1〕 The local marketing agreement for WVLA and KZUP-CD (which is retaining ownership with White Knight Broadcasting) is included in the deal. The sale was completed on January 1, 2015.〔(Consummation Notice ), ''CDBS Public Access'', Federal Communications Commission, Retrieved 6 January, 2015.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WBRL-CD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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